Identification means for a cloth board



Aug. 2, 1955 w. s. RILEY 2,714,265

' IDENTIFICATION MEANS FOR A CLOTH BOARD Filed Aug. 22, 1952 Wi/liam 5. P076) IN V EN TOR.

BY 2 2 flTToRNEY United States Patent IDENTIFICATION MEANS FOR A CLOTH, BOARD William S. Riley, Coventry, R. I.

Application August 22, 1952, Serial No. 305,853

1 Claim. (CI. 40-20) This invention relates to cloth boards, winding boards, and similar articles, generally used as supporting cores or centers upon which cloth is wound to form the flat cloth packages or bolts of commerce.

Cloth boards, lap boards and similar articles of this class are well known devices which are widely used especially by cloth manufacturers and merchants who may have on display large numbers of bolts of cloth of various kinds. These cloth boards are of various types of which the more commonly used types have consisted of relatively thin, light, flat, rectangular, laminated structures constructed of fibrous sheet material including heavy plain paper, cardboard and/or strawboard glued together with usually a narrow end binder of paper capping each end, and with or without an outer wrapping of heavy plain paper, such as wrapping or kraft paper, and a filler core of heavy corrugated cardboard or strawboard.

The general objects of the invention are to provide articles of this class with identification means which will carry informative data as to the goods wound or lapped on such a board to supplement the usual labels on the exposed ends that are displayed which have been used to a certain extent for trademarks or to carry the name of the manufacturer of the fabric, or for other purposes, and also to provide a novel method of attaching the identification means to the cloth board which is very simple and may be readily accomplished at very small cost.

To this end, I provide a cloth board or winding board of the foregoing type with an identification tag or ticket having an attached length of string which is bent into the form of an elongated loop with its opposite ends tied together in a knot, the tag being detachably connected with the string loop which is attached to the cloth board at one end thereof by insertion of the terminal end portions of the string including the knot under the folded face portion of one of the usual paper end binders with the knot inserted under the end edge of the outer facing covering one of the inner layers of corrugated stock with the main string loop passing across this outer facing and being firmly anchored in such position by the adhesive material securing the folded flap portion of the end binder to the cloth board. The tag or ticket may have printed on its face informative data to designate the kind, quantity, price or other indicia alfecting the goods wound on the cloth board.

The nature of the invention will be readily understood from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a complete cloth board embodying my invention, without any cloth wound thereon;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of the body of the cloth board taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3, is a perspective view of the cloth board of Fig. 1 showing the knotted end, portion of the string tag positioned in place preparatory to gluing down the opposite folded flap portion of the associated end binder; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a knotted: string loop with,- out the attached tag prior to being applied to they end portion of a cloth board.

Referring particularly to the drawings, the. cloth. board or winding board shown is of well known construction comprising a main body portion indicated at 10 having at its opposite ends the narrow end binders indicated at 12 and 13 respectively. The main body portion 10 is preferably of flat elongated rectangular shape having two opposite broad faces, although this shape is not intended to be restrictive since it may be varied in. accordance with the cloth or other article to be stored or displayed.

The main body portion 10 of the cloth board is of a laminated structure as shown in Fig. 2 and comprises a filler core formed of two sheets of ordinary corrugated cardboard or strawboard as indicated at 14 and 15 respectively between which is interposed a. partition sheet of stiff paper 16 which is adhesively secured to the opposed inner faces of the corrugated filler sheets 14. and 15. In Fig. 2, these filler sheets are shown with their corrugations preferably running transversely of the longest dimension of the body section 10- but, instead may have the corrugations running substantially diagonally of the board if so desired.

Disposed at the outer faces of the corrugated filler sheets 14 and 15 of the board and cemented thereto by a suitable adhesive are the facing layers 17 and 18 respectively each of stiff paper. Around the resulting structure just described is stretched tightly a cover or facing sheet 19 which may in some cases be of such material as cardboard, but usually is of paper of substantial thickness, such as a suitable grade of wrapping or kraft paper.

The end binders 12 and 13 are applied, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, over the opposite ends of the body of the cloth board 10 to cover the rough cut end portions of the body portion 10. The end binders 12 and 13 may consist of sheets or pieces of suitable sheet material, such as paper of suitable grade or thickness, and in some cases, they may be of fabric. Top and bottom flap portions 20, 20 and 21, 21 of the end binders 12 and 13 respectively are folded over against and adhesively secured to opposite flat marginal portions of the ends of the body of the cloth board whereby the intermediate portion 22 of the respective binders cover the ends of the body portion 10 of the board and conceal them from view, and also provide a substantially smooth and flat surface which may be printed with any suitable indicia, or upon which any suitable manufacturers label may be pasted.

A labeling tag 25 is provided on one end of the cloth board and attached thereto by a length of string 26 formed into an elongated loop 27 by being bent substantially at its mid-portion and having its terminal ends tied together in a knot 28, the knot and associated ends of the string proximate to the knot being inserted under the top fold or flap portion 20 of the end binder 12 as here shown and adhesively secured by a suitable layer of adhesive material (not shown) to the opposed surface of the flat face of the body portion 10 of the cloth board.

The tag 25 may be attached to the elongated string loop 27 either before or after the looped string is affixed to the cloth board. In either case, the attachment of the string loop 27 is preferably carried out in the manner shown in Fig. 3, that is, the knot 28 is first lodged within an open end groove of one of the corrugated filler sheets, here shown as the filler sheet 14, with the knob of the knot caught under and engaging the underside of the end edge of the adjacent outer facing sheet 17 and, while held in such position, the end binder 12 is brought endwise into a covering position and the bent flap portions '20, 20' folded over against opposite faces of the board and glued thereto. In carrying out this last-named operation, the flap portions may be subjected to sufiicient pressure to forcibly embed portions of the string loop 27 proximate to the knot 28 within a depressed portion of the impressionable face of the board at the end edge of the cover sheet thereof above the knot (see Fig. 3) to additionally anchor it in such location where it is held permanently by the adhesive union of the overlying flap portion 20 in being glued or cemented to the cloth board. The string loop having its knotted end attached to the board in the manner just described then will have part of its elongated loop 27 passing between and extending across the flap 20 with its main loop portion disposed exteriorly of the body part. of the cloth board as depicted in Fig. 3 and of suflicient length whereby it may be readily swung over the associated end binder 12 into a suspended position at the end of the cloth board for displaying the tag 25 in full view, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

What I claim is:

In combination with an overlying flap of a finishing end cap adhesively secured over the narrow end of a rectangular-shaped cloth board having outer facing sheets secured to opposite faces of a core of corrugated sheet material, an indicia-carrying tag, and an attaching string loop element carried by said tag and having its terminal ends tied together into a knot, the said string element being anchored to the cloth board by having the knot disposed substantially entirely within an open corrugation of the core sheet at one end of the cloth board and retained and confined therein against displacement thereof by said finishing end cap, the knob of said knot being firmly caught under the underside of the overlying edge portion of the adjacent outer facing sheet and the loop portions of said string element proximate to the knot passing therefrom between said end cap over the adjacent end edge of the aforesaid outer facing sheet and extending inwardly from said edge along a grooved depression formed in the marginal edge portion of the outer face of said facing sheet and additionally continuing beneath and sealed by the overlying flap of such finishing end cap with the remainder of said string loop being freely exposed exteriorly thereof whereby the associated tag may be displayed in a suspended position in full view at such end of the cloth board.

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